So I wrote an article criticizing birthers, and from that they determined that I am a birther. Then they accused me of being a conspiracy theorist for showing how data has been tampered…
Posted By Thomas Sowell On January 2, 2015 @ 12:02 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage
2014 has been a year of anniversaries. It was the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War — a war which many at the time saw as madness, and predicted that it would be the harbinger of a Second World War a generation later.
2014 was also the 70th anniversary of the fateful landing at Normandy that marked the beginning of the end of World War II.
2014 was likewise the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that marked the beginning of the end of racial segregation, the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and of the beginning of President Lyndon Johnson’s “war on poverty” programs.
Anniversaries are opportunities to look back at historic turning points, compare the rhetoric of the time with the reality that we now know unfolded — and to learn hard lessons about the difference between rhetoric and reality for our own time.
A hundred years ago, the President of the United States was Woodrow Wilson — the first president to openly claim that the Constitution of the United States was outdated, and that courts should erode the limits that the Constitution placed on the federal government.
Today, after a hundred years of courts’ eroding the Constitution’s protections of personal freedom, we now have a president who has taken us dangerously close to one-man rule, unilaterally changing laws passed by Congress and refusing to enforce other laws — on immigration especially.
Like Woodrow Wilson, our current president is charismatic, vain, narrow and headstrong. Someone said of Woodrow Wilson that he had no friends, only devoted slaves and enemies. That description comes all too close to describing Barack Obama, with his devoted political palace guard in the White House that he listens to, in contrast to the generals he ignores on military issues and the doctors he ignores on medical issues.
Both Wilson and Obama have been great phrase makers and crowd pleasers. We are still trying to cope with the havoc left in the wake of Woodrow Wilson’s ringing phrase about “the self-determination of peoples.”
First of all, it was never “self-determination.” It was the arbitrary determination of the fate of millions of people in nations carved out of empires dismembered by the victors after the First World War.
Neither the Irish in Britain nor the Germans in Bohemia were allowed to determine who would rule them. Nor was anybody in Africa.
The consequence of fragmenting large nations was the creation of small and vulnerable nations that Hitler was able to pick off, one by one, during the 1930s.
Minorities who protested that they were being oppressed under the Austro-Hungarian Empire got their own nations, where their own oppression of other minorities was often worse than they had experienced in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
We are still trying to sort out the chaos in the Middle East growing out of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. How long it will take to sort out the havoc left behind by Barack Obama’s foreign policies only the future will tell.
It should be noted that, after the charismatic Woodrow Wilson, none of the next three presidents was the least bit charismatic. Let us hope that the voters today have also learned how dangerous charisma and glib rhetoric can be — and what a childish self-indulgence it is to choose a president on the basis of symbolism. Woodrow Wilson was the first Southerner to be elected president since the Civil War, as Obama was to become the first black president. But neither fact qualified them to wield the enormous powers of the presidency. Nor will being the first woman president, the first Hispanic president or other such firsts.
Since 2014 has been the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s “war on poverty,” we should note that this was another war that the Johnson administration lost. Both President Johnson and President John F. Kennedy before him said that the purpose of the “war on poverty” was to help people become self-supporting, to end dependency on government programs. But 50 years and trillions of dollars later, there is more dependency than ever.
Let’s hope we have learned something from past debacles.
If the essence of religion is a commitment to altruism, and if altruism is rooted in the concept of man’s creation in the image of God, then Islam is not a religion but a perversion of religion, as well as a denial of the moral unity of the humanity. Islam should therefore be regarded as paganism with the veneer of monotheism. The mere fact that Muslims use children as human bombs or as human shields, thus sacrificing their own children in the name of Allah, is comparable to Canaanites who sacrificed their children to Baal.
It follows that the language of contemporary public discourse errs most seriously when it identifies Islam as a religion. As others have observed, Islam is a political ideology. Thus understood, we should regard the leaders of this ideology, such as the Mullahs of Iran and the leaders of more than fifty Muslim states, as despots engaged in a monumental deception if not in willful self-delusion. These Muslims use the language and accouterments of religion to (1) garner respectability; (2) augment their power; (3) recruit the ignorant; and (4) fill their coffers.
Moreover, by wearing the mantle of religion, these despots disarm non-Muslims, especially western liberals steeped in skepticism and moral pluralism, who are reluctant to expose Islam as a fraud lest they be accused of bigotry, the pejorative label of the secular mind.
The above criticism is not ethnocentric. The falsity and pernicious character of Islam – and let us not be misled by nice Muslim acquaintances – can be substantiated by citing the views of the great Arab philosopher al-Farabi on the one hand, and the renowned sociologist Ibn Khaldun on the other. Both of these scholars rejected Islam with contempt. While al-Farabi deemed Islam irrational, Ibn Khaldun regarded Islam as “savagery.” Sadly, were it not for the existential threat Islam poses to Civilization, the preceding disparagement of Islam is unfortunate, for this psychotic and ferocious “religion” has endowed a billion and more worshipers of Allah with some “meaning” to their otherwise ferocious and meaningless lives. At stake in this candid assessment is the survival of civilization.
As Lou Harris has observed, civilization possesses four prerequisites: a stable social order, the co-operation of individuals pursuing their own interests, the ability to tolerate or socialize with one’s neighbors, and a hatred of violence. Clearly, Islam lacks these prerequisites of civilization. Hence it is all the more remarkable that Dr. Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-born psychiatrist, now living in the United States, arrived at the unpleasant conclusion that Islam is not a civilization!
We dare not remain silent about these ugly facts. We dare not be silent today as the world was silent in the 1930s about Nazism and its ascendency in Germany, whose imperialistic ambitions are comparable to those of Islam. For today Islam has access to weapons of mass destruction. We dare not distract ourselves by playing golf while Iran, the spearhead of Islam, is animated by the malediction “Death to America,” and vows to “Wipe Israel off the map.” That so-called moderate Muslims don’t rise against this scourge of humanity is a commentary on its character.
The threat posed by Nazi Germany could have been nipped in the bud years before it invaded and conquered Belgium and France, to say nothing of the Nazi the death camps of which democracies, steeped in moral relativism, were silent. Today this relativism is ensconced not only in academia, but in the American White House! Today, while Islam is animated by a militant and fraudulent religion, America is steeped in “evangelical atheism.”◙
Epilogue. I hope to offer soon a positive message. But bear in that a rotting foundation must be removed before constructing a sound edifice.
For Truth’s Sake!
Truth…Whether the Left Likes It or Not
by Dr. Fred
Are too many black males suspended because they have no respect for authority? Just asking…
I spent 10 years teaching grades 4 through 6 in California’s public school systems. Following that, I moved up to teaching junior and technical colleges. I’m not just someone who has read about or studied the issues and problems facing educators and students alike. I lived it because for ten years, while teaching in public schools, I created daily lesson plans, dealt with problems in the classroom, and jumped through all the hoops asked of me with all of my colleagues in order to become better educators in the classroom.
The one thing that I found to be polarizing, exasperating, and way too much of a time waster was when I was forced to deal with classroom management issues. Every good teacher worth his or her salt had a classroom management plan. It would have been asinine to walk into any classroom without such a plan in place. Right up front students needed to know what was expected of them, what the rewards as well as the consequences of their actions would be. There should never be any type of guessing game at all.
My biggest and probably my most important rule was this one: I would treat each and every student with respect and I expected the same in return. It was important to establish this at the very beginning of each school year. A classroom that inculcated respect among students – to one another – and among students to teacher – among one another – had a great chance of being the type of classroom where students not only could learn, but would want to learn.
Today, what we are hearing more and more is this question (or something similar): why is it black males seem to be disproportionately suspended/expelled from classrooms? In fact, though the federal government has done numerous studies on this, they are determined to do more. Apparently, they haven’t received the answer they want to hear, so they commission more studies and will likely continue until they hear the answer they want to hear. The answer – for the federal government – will have something to do with RACISM. Until they get this answer, they will not be satisfied.
Here is an example of what a teacher in a particular school district has to face. As I watched this video, it became immediately clear that there was no teaching going on at all. Why? Because a number of the dominant black males in this classroom have opted to try out their machismo on a smaller black student. A white teacher steps in separates the students, but as can be seen, the situation is allowed to go on of its own accord. There is no attempt by the teacher to bring the class to order. Frankly, I’m not sure how it would be done either and that’s coming from someone who spent years in the classroom.
Here’s another video example that portrays a black male teacher against a black student and his buds. They back him up and it actually winds up ratcheting things up. The students have absolutely no respect for the black teacher. None.
If you can get through the video, listening the “rationale” and “logic” of the main black male student, the question to me becomes clear: why are these kids even IN this type of environment? They don’t care. They’re not interested in doing what’s expected of them. They use filthy and foul language toward the teacher. They are already GANGBANGERS in their minds (whether they are that in reality), who are simply wasting time in the educational system when they have not one shred of interest in being there.
In this third video, another black male teacher gets a bit more respect than the previous one. He isn’t going to put up with the shenanigans of two kids in his classroom and lays the rules out straight.
What is the problem here in these schools? Why do students act like this? There are several reasons, none of which have anything to do with racism. Again though, this is not what the federal government wants to hear so they will continue to commission more studies until they get what they want: racism.
Consider that many black families in inner cities are missing something extremely important: a dad that is actually part of the family. Too many black families of inner cities and suburbs have no father at all. These families consist of a black female mother who has produced several children (possibly from different fathers) and the dads cannot be found. Mom’s only source of income is Welfare because she can’t get a job since she has kids and no one to babysit while she works.
Too many of these young black women start having children when they are very young. It’s babies raising babies. Yes, this happens in the white community as well, but the federal government is not interested in finding out why white trash young men are also suspended/expelled from school. The emphasis is on black males so that’s what this article is about.
Young black males – where there is no father figure in the family household – are raised by women who cannot provide the type of emotional care that these young black males need. Instead, what they have been taught by the left to do is blame entrenched racism (white to black) for their problems. Instead of learning to take responsibility for their own actions, it has been drilled into them that the reason their kids have no black dads in the home is because of “white privilege,” or “white racism.” It’s not because these young women slept around, got pregnant and began giving birth to one kid after another at the taxpayer’s expense.
There is nothing in too many of these homes that places any real value on children. They are a commodity today, there to bring in a paycheck in the form of Welfare. Kids are left to fend for themselves and learn about life on the streets.
Judging from the videos above, it’s plain that blacks are getting the short end of the stick but it’s due SOLELY to the fact that it’s only the LEFT in America that wants to keep blacks down. It started officially with LBJ and his “great society” where he said that his plan would keep “n*ggers” voting Democrat for the next 100 years or so. Yep, a WHITE, leftwing, Democrat said that.
Today, President Obama along with his protegé Eric Holder carry that torch and here’s just one (of many) videos that prove it. I’ll leave you with it. Enjoy what the left has been doing and continues to do here in America, all the while blaming it on conservatives, patriots, right-wingers, and Tea Party people.
People need to wake up. Will they? Doubtful. We can hope, but it’s still doubtful. Black males are suspended more often than others because of how they are raised and the lies they are taught, often by many within their own community.
They are taught that it’s not their fault, but someone else’s and usually that someone else is white. They wind up having no respect for anyone, even other adult black males because they’re been “wronged” and are filled with suspicion and even hatred.
But now the federal government would like us all to believe that it’s due to entrenched and continuous racism from ALL white people toward blacks. This will only lead in one direction: reparations. I’ve said it before but it bears repeating that reparations will happen because the picture has been and continues to be painted (with more urgency today) that white privilege, white racism toward blacks, and the inequities and unfairness within society due to these things has created a caricature of black males that has become the norm.
President Obama and his administration are leading the way to start broaching the subject loudly and clearly that the only way to begin to heal “wounds” is through payouts to blacks. While they will tell us it won’t solve the problem (and it won’t), it needs to start there.
It will actually create more problems, but President Obama doesn’t care about that since that his end game anyway.
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